Money laundering

Just recieved this email - sounds tempting eh?? not

Subject: Part time employment opportunity - FAO ****
From: CandidateEmail.00001169386333@monster.com 
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:32:13 +0000 (GMT) 
To: ****
We have found your resume at Monster.co.uk and we would like to offer you a job. 
It is a part-time job that consists of receiving payments from customers (through
bank transfers) and then making further payments to our main office or to one of
our regional affiliated departments, depending on the customer's location. 

Your commission as an agent is 6% of each transaction. For example, if you receive
2000 GBP to your bank account, you will withdraw the money and keep 120 GBP for
yourself. Your salary will be approximately 12000 GBP per year. The hours for this
work are flexible and can be combined with any permanent or other part-time job,
with an average workload of up to 10 hours a week. 

All additional money transfer fees and money transfer-related charges are covered
and paid for by our company. Therefore you'll only be responsible for making the
proper payments in time (i.e. within 48 hrs of successful receipt into your account).
Each transaction will be transferred only after prior notification, which will
sometimes be a notification by phone call. 

Our company's principal business is based on a peer-to-peer type payment network,
this business model heavily employs all the latest internet technologies. We are one
of only a few companies that uses regional representatives in its business operations.
This avoids high foreign taxation and cross-board acquisition fees. If you are
interested in our offer, please feel free to ask for details of the general
provisions of the contract. 

Best regards, 
Rita Widmer

gamewatch.org

Stumbled aross this site, gamewatch.org, quite an interesting read, especially about EA work practices :P

An aside for gary: there is one post there that says a good QA manager always gets promoted out of QA, so they are hard to find - how long were you a QA manager for??? HAHA

Always the same numbers

Kieran asked me to post this link as he's a cretin web developer that can't log into a blog :P

http://www.thetechzone.com/?m=show&id=662

Dr. Suess

Here’s an easy game to play.
Here’s an easy thing to say....

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
and your data is corrupted cause the index doesn’t hash,
then your situation’s hopeless, and your system’s gona crash.

You can’t say this? What a shame, sir!
We’ll find you another game, sir.

If the label on the cable on the table at your house
says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
that’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
and your screen is all distorted by the side-effects of gauss,
so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
cause as sure as I’m a poet, the sucker’s gunna hang!

When the copy of your floppy’s getting sloppy on the disk,
and the microcode instructions cause unecessary risc,
then you have to flash your memory and you’ll want to RAM your ROM.
quickly turn of your computer and be sure to tell your mom!

Safety Warnings

My mum got this little present this year called 'grow your own toy boy' where you place this 1 inch doll in water and in 72 hours it grows 600%.

BUT the thing i found most amusing about this 'toy boy' was the warning on the back :-

'WARNING: SMALL PARTS MAY BE A CHOKING HAZARD'

cut down in his prime, poor guy

Interesting Article

Now here's a post I think everyone should read, first line goes:-

If you have the slightest creative talent, you are probably being hustled constantly to create for little or no money.

Be sure to follow the link to the following article too at the end.

Inappropriate jokes for all the family this christmas time

Heard these at the pub tonight so you'll have to forgive me.....

What's the difference between Mr Kipling and the Surrey police force?
With Mr Kipling you get 6 tarts in a box.

Did you hear about the dyslexic santa?
Put the prossies under the tree.

Surrey rugby team have had to disband - ran out of hookers.



On a lighter note - we've started calling my grandad 'spiderman', he can't get out the bath on his own either.